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Changing Gears for 2012: Getting Real with Rails

Posted on January 3, 2012

For the last few years, I’ve occasionally “dabbled” with Ruby on Rails, even spoken about it at conferences, but never really stuck with it to any real extent. I’d always be catching glimpses of the supposed unicorns and rainbows, but would … Continue reading →

Posted in Rails | Tagged | 5 Comments

Handling Circular References ASP.NET MVC Json Serialization

Posted on December 8, 2011

I love the Entity Framework CodeFirst stuff, combined with scaffolding, it makes development go so fast. Fast that is until you drop an API into the mix and want that to serve Json. Here’s my EF Model. Lots of lovely … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments

ASP.NET MVC3 and 404’s for Area Controllers

Posted on December 8, 2011

So I’m a big fan of ASP.NET MVC, and the general idea of convention over configuration, but I spent a few hours late last night fighting with something, and the Google was no help, so hopefully this helps someone else… … Continue reading →

Posted in asp.net mvc | 7 Comments

Adventures in the Real World: How I Spent my Fall

Posted on November 29, 2011

Before I jump back into technical blog posts, I thought I’d share a little about my adventures of the last few months as it’s been hectic but quite a lot of fun. As noted in the previous post, things got … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Travel | 1 Comment

FOSS4G: Rockin the Mile High City

Posted on September 21, 2011

I had a pretty good idea that I’d be blown away by the stuff going on at FOSS4G, but the conference exceeded my expectations. Sure, a lot of the sessions I went to were pretty cutting edge, but that was the point … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, Open Source | 5 Comments

FOSS4G: Fun and Games in Denver

Posted on August 19, 2011

I’m pretty excited about FOSS4G – the last “big” non-Esri geo event I made it to was (the now defunct) GeoWeb conference back in 2009, and it was a blast. Nothing like hanging out with a bunch of crazy smart … Continue reading →

Posted in Conferences, NodeJs | 3 Comments

Jumping in the Deep-End…

Posted on August 17, 2011

A week or so ago, just as Apple momentarily eclipsed Exxon in value, I finally took the plunge and got a Mac. I may be off the back in joining the Cult, but I’m making up for it by jumping … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 7 Comments

Leaflet: Lean, Mean Javascript Maps

Posted on August 4, 2011

A few weeks back I tweeted about some fun stuff we were doing with the Leaflet javascript map library. For those who may not know about it, Leaflet is a new(ish) library from Cloudmade (http://leaflet.cloudmade.com/). What’s really great about this … Continue reading →

Posted in ArcGIS Server, javascipt, Leaflet | 5 Comments

Mobile Custom View Engine Code

Posted on July 12, 2011

Today I gave a talk at the  Microsoft Special Interest Group about using ASP.NET MVC to serve device specific views. In that talk I used a CustomViewEngine class (code is here) This code was modified from this post by Scott … Continue reading →

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Flex Special Interest Group Presentation

Posted on July 12, 2011

Today I gave a really rapid fire presentation at the Flex Special Interest Group at the Esri Users Conference. I showed 11 flex apps in ~5 minutes – so clearly it was a whirlwind. Here are the the links to … Continue reading →

Posted in ArcGIS Server, Esri, Flex | Leave a comment